Camilla Wide
FT (PhD)
camilla.wide@utu.fi +358 29 450 2881 +358 50 525 8629 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku Office: 308 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8845-9438 Camilla Wide (more extensive presentation, in Swedish) Scandinavian Languages at the University of Turku Publications (complete list, incl. publications before 2010) |
Areas of expertise
Scandinavian Languages (Swedish, Finland Swedish, Icelandic); Spoken Language; Variation; Interactional Linguistics; Institutional Discourse; Construction Grammar, Variational Pragmatics; Dialectology
Scandinavian Languages (Swedish, Finland Swedish, Icelandic); Spoken Language; Variation; Interactional Linguistics; Institutional Discourse; Construction Grammar, Variational Pragmatics; Dialectology
Biography
I have been Professor of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Turku since 2010. Before that I had a position as senior lecturer at the University of Helsinki (2006–2009), where I completed my PhD in 2003 and my MA in 1994. In addition to this I have a B.Phil.Isl.-degree from the University of Iceland, where I studied in 1991–1994. I also have an honorary High school diploma from Clovis West High School, where I was an exchange student in 1984–1985. In 2020 I was appointed honorary doctor at Uppsala University and in 2023 I became a member of the The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
In 2003–2006 I coordinated a research project on Finland-Swedish syntax at the Society for Swedish literature in Finland and in 2006–2009 I had funding for a post doc-project on dialect syntax from the Academy of Finland (University of Helsinki). I have participated in several Scandinavian research projects and networks on variation (NORMS, ScanDiaSyn, N'CLAV, SoNoGlo), and in 2013–2020 I was the leader of the Turku part of the research program Interaction and Variation in Pluricentric Languages - Communicative Patterns in Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish (IVIP), which was financed by Riksbankens jubileumsfond in Sweden. At the moment I am the PI of the research project Communicative Patterns in Two Languages in Finland, which is financed by the The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland 2023–2026.
I have been the head of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Turku since 2012. Currently I am also member of the steering group of the Centre for Research on Language and Wellbeing at University of Turku and the Linguistics Committee at the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland. I am also member of the editorial boards of the bookseries Topics in Address Research (John Benjamins) and the journals Arkiv för nordisk filologi, Folkmålsstudier, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Íslenskt mál, Orð og tunga, Scandinavian Studies in Language, Språk och stil and Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv.
Research
I am also interested in construction grammar, dialect syntax and historical linguistics. Within these fields I have co-edited of the volumes Constructions in Finland-Swedish Syntax (Wide & Lyngfelt 2009, in Swedish), Language in History – History in Language (Lehti-Eklund, Wide, Tiisala & Lamberg 2009, in Swedish), Nordic Languages and Linguistic Typology (Eriksen & Wide 2011) and Swedish Constructions (Lyngfelt & Wide 2014).
My research covers different aspects of spoken language, grammar and discourse. During the last few years I have been focusing on pragmatic routines, such as address practices. I have, among other things, co-edited the volume Address Practice as Social Action (Palgrave 2015) together with Catrin Norrby (Stockholm University).
On-going research collaboration:
- Interactional linguistics
- Communicative patterns in Swedish and Finnish
- Swedish in Turku
- Language and well-being
Teaching
- Supervision (PhD, MA theses)
- Language policy and language ideology, Finland Swedish
- Spoken language, Youth language, Digital communication
- Syntax, Interactional linguistics
Publications
- Den svenskbetonade läkar- och tandläkarutbildningen vid Åbo universitet – innovativt samarbete över fakultets- och universitetsgränser (2024)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Suomen ja suomenruotsin vuorovaikutuskäytänteet vertailussa uudessa KoM2Språk-hankkeessa (2024)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Marketta Sundman (2023)
- Historiska Och Litteraturhistoriska Studier
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - On the verge of (in)directness: Managing complaints in service interactions (2023)
- Journal of Pragmatics
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Samtalsgrammatik (2023) Att analysera interaktion Lindström Jan, Wide Camilla
(Book chapter (B2)) - Variations in opening and closing forms in email correspondence in Danish and Swedish (2023) It's different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research Thode Hougaard Tina, Jensen Eva Skafte, Rathje Marianne, White Jonathan, Wide Camilla
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Att kommunicera på svenska i Finland och Sverige (2022)
- Poppis
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Duande eller niande? Uppfattningar om tilltal på svenska i Finland (2022)
- Svenskan i Finland
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Pragmatic variation across geographical and social space (2022) Pragmatics of Space Nilsson Jenny, Lindström Jan, Bohman Love, Norrby Catrin, Marian Klara Skogmyr, Wide Camilla
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Språket inom vården. En jämförelse av språkprogram för tre tvåspråkiga sjukvårdsdistrikt i Finland (2022)
- Svenskan i Finland
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Tankar som styr kroppen. Instruktioner med verbet tänka vid personlig träning (2022)
- Svenskan i Finland
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Tilltal på två språk i samma land. Svenskspråkiga finländares uppfattningar om tilltalsskicket på finska (2022)
- Studia Humaniora Ouluensia
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Interaktion och variation i pluricentriska språk. Kommunikativa mönster i sverigesvenska och finlandssvenska. Rapport från ett forskningsprogram. (2021) Norrby Catrin, Lindström Jan, Nilsson Jenny, Wide Camilla
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - New perspectives on pluricentricity (2021)
- Sociolinguistica: Internationales Jahrbuch für Europäische Soziolinguistik
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Sociolinguistica 35. New perspectives on pluricentricity (2021) Wide Camilla, Norrby Catrin, Oakes Leigh
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Språklig variation är det normala (2021)
- Språkbruk
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Yksinpuhelu ja vuorovaikutus. Keskustelu muistisairaiden hyvänä hoitona? (2021) Kohtaamisia kentällä. Soveltava keskusteluntutkimus ammatillisissa ympäristöissä Lindholm Camilla, Wide Camilla
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Ikääntyminen suomenruotsalaisena. Ryhmäkoti yhteiskunnan peilinä (2020) Vanhuus ja kielenkäyttö Camilla Lindholm, Camilla Wide
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Om att presentera sitt ärende. En jämförande studie av servicesamtal på sverigesvenska, finlandssvenska och finska (2020)
- Svenskan i Finland
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Pluricentric languages (2020) Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment Catrin Norrby, Jan Lindström, Jenny Nilsson, Camilla Wide
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3))